October 2025 - We're launching a short, quarterly Advocacy Newsletter to keep you informed about how NCTM is working to advance policies at the federal level that support mathematics teachers, ...

Reston, VA - September 10, 2025 - The National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM) today responded to the newly released NAEP Grade 12 mathematics results with an urgent call for systemic action ...

The Designing Innovative Lessons and Activities for Mathematics Teaching Grant is sponsored by the Mary P. Dolciani Halloran Foundation. This grant supports the research-and-writing of mathematics ...

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Join the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics for the 2025 Annual Meeting in Atlanta this fall, October 15–18. This year’s meeting will honor the historical and contemporary contributions of ...

Join NCTM as we celebrate our Centennial with 100 Days of Professional Learning - live, free webinars presented by selected speakers from the NCTM Centennial Annual Meeting program that was to be held ...

I love the story of Carl Friedrich Gauss—who, as an elementary student in the late 1700s, amazed his teacher with how quickly he found the sum of the integers from 1 to 100 to be 5,050. Gauss ...

People of all ages love to play games that are fun and motivating. Games give students opportunities to explore fundamental number concepts, such as the counting sequence, one-to-one correspondence, ...

Teachers are asked to regularly plan for instruction. Frequently, the lesson plans are focused more on the activities that will be completed for the lesson rather than on the mathematical goals of the ...

In the August 2014 issue of Teaching Children Mathematics, authors Karen S. Karp, Sarah B. Bush, and Barbara J. Dougherty initiated an important conversation in the elementary mathematics education ...

The latest National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) mathematics scores for grades 4 and 8 underscore persistent challenges in mathematics education and highlight the urgency of improving ...